PSYCH 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Babies, Active Child
1 Apr 2016
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Can we change development through experiences: 1950s sub saharan africa, african infant precocity : infants developed more quickly than. Motor enhancement: extraordinary cross cultural variation. Kipsigis (rural kenyan) babies sit upright 5 weeks earlier and walk 3 weeks earlier. Beyond maturation: large influence of biological timetable nature, some flexibility due to culture and environment nurture, more recent trend: examine interaction with other developmental domains (perception, attention, body growth, etc. , dynamic system view. Throwing or catching a ball: must calibrate in response to constant change, ex. Enormous change in head to limb ratio. Associations are gradually built between hand and eye: ex. They peck into the clay floor all around the food. By day 4 they peck right around it. Gave them prism helmets, their view shifts. When they get used to this, we determine that they are not learning from the environment, it is biological maturation: ex.
